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Prince Harry dances with children at the St. Bernadette School for the visually impaired in Maseru, Lesotho, Feb. 27, 2013. Prince Harry is making a return trip to the southern African kingdom of Lesotho where he has long-standing personal charity interests.

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Prince Harry dances with children at the St. Bernadette School for the visually impaired in Maseru, Lesotho, Feb. 27, 2013. Prince Harry is making a return trip to the southern African kingdom of Lesotho where he has long-standing personal charity interests.

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Posters bidding Pope Benedict XVI farewell are shown on the day he gave his final general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Feb. 27, 2013, before stepping down tomorrow.

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Neil Heslin, the father of a six-year-old boy who was slain in the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, holds a picture of himself with his son Jesse and wipes his eye while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 27, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.

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A member of the national police beats a student demonstrating in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 26, 2013. The students were protesting for information about the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Chavez's continued silence in the week since his return to Venezuela has only deepened the mystery about his health.

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A man and a dog jump from grave to grave, trying to cross a flooded cemetery in the village of Monospitovo, southeastern Republic of Macedonia, Feb. 27, 2013. Torrential rains for the past three days in the Strumica Valley have flooded fields and villages, destroying or damaging crops and homes.

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A Bangladeshi woman cries, as volunteers work to douse a fire at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 27, 2013. According to police, at least 300 shanties were gutted. No casualties were reported.

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Shadows of people are cast on the street as a woman begs for coins, right, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Feb. 27, 2013. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has conceded that the government just failed to reduce its budget deficit in 2012 to the level it promised European authorities. Rajoy said the deficit fell to 6.7 percent of the country's annual gross domestic product from 9 percent in 2011.

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A sedated lion is carried on a stretcher at the estate of Ion Balint, known to Romanians as Nutzu the Pawnbroker, in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 27, 2013. Authorities along with specialists from an animal welfare charity removed four lions and two bears that were illegally kept on the estate of one of Romania's most notorious underworld figures who reportedly used them to threaten his victims.

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Dr. Paul Melchert, left, is interrupted by son Emmett as he attempted to address the media, while his partner James Zimerman holds twin Gabriel, during a news conference, Feb. 27, 2013, in St. Paul, Minn., where lawmakers introduced a bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota.

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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio applaud at the unveiling of a statue of Rosa Parks, Feb. 27, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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A man sits with other residents in a drinking den, his toenail painted with the initials of presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyatta's party, The National Alliance, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya will soon hold its first presidential election since its 2007 vote devolved into months of tribal violence.